Member

My point, when I looked at the amendments as tabled at the beginning of last week, was that it seemed to me that what the Government might have been looking for was that, when an undertaking has been appointed by a water undertaker to carry out an infrastructure project, that is sufficient in itself for the project to be designated as a nationally significant infrastructure project. But of course the 2013 regulations about specified infrastructure projects go on to say, after Regulation 6—which includes the point at which a person is appointed by a water undertaker—that there is a process, governed by Ofwat, for designating that person as an infrastructure provider under Regulation 8. That then gives rise to requirements for the provision of information and related matters under Regulation 9, and it links into Section 36D of the Water Industry Act, which provides specific powers and duties for Ofwat in relation to an infrastructure provider.